Abstract:Research has shown that the sight of a speaker's face can dramatically improve the intelligibility of speech. The addition of a video stream to telecommunications systems is, therefore, a highly desirable goal. Extending the content-based coding paradigm of MPEG-4, we present a novel method of reducing the amount of data required to represent video images of human speakers. This method is based around the mirroring of vertical halves of the speaker's face. We report an experiment that compared video of synthes… Show more
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